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Creator:: Suzuki, Nobuya
Abstract:: Thinning has the potential to increase structural diversity of managed forests for wildlife. During 1994-1996, I conducted experimental and observational studies using pitfall trapping to assess short-term and potential long-term effects of thinning on abundance and reproduction of forest-floor vertebrates in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menzeisii) forests of the Oregon Coast Range....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Pilkerton, Stephen J.
Abstract:: Contract harvest operations have become the preferred approach to reducing the largest cost component of timber production through free market competition amongst logging contractors bidding or negotiating for work. The goal of this research was to investigate economic components of harvesting operations not previously studied for steep slope thinning harvests...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Thinning Aged Douglas-Fir: An Analysis Of Mobilization Costs And A Log Bucking Strategy For Revenue

Creator:: Kellogg, L. D. (Loren D.), Davis, Chad T. (Chad Thomas), and Oregon State University. Forest Research Laboratory
Abstract:: Harvesting productivity rates and costs were determined for three silvicultural treatments used in commercial ground-based thinning of young stands to achieve timber management objectives and enhance wildlife habitat. Treatment definitions were based on residual trees per acre (tpa) after thinning. The treatments were light thin (115 residual tpa), light thin...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: i o n 4 8 F o r e s t R e s e a r c h L a b o r a t o r y TracTor Thinning ProducTiviTy and

Creator:: Beggs, Liane R.
Abstract:: Across western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, forest management practices over the past century reduced the amount of late-successional forest while simultaneously increasing the amount of young (less than 80 years old), managed Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) dominated forests. Recently, concerns over loss of late-successional habitat pushed management objectives on public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Following Thinning in Young Douglas-fir Forests of Western Oregon: Can Thinning Accelerate Development of

Creator:: Kellogg, L. D. (Loren D.), Spong, Ben, and Oregon State University. Forest Research Laboratory
Abstract:: Young Douglas-fir stands were commercially thinned to achieve vegetation- and wildlife-related objectives. Harvesting and forwarding production and costs were compared among three mechanized thinning treatments: light thin [(115 residual trees per acre (tpa)], light thin with 0.5-ac openings (92 residual tpa), and heavy thin (53 residual tpa). The sites were...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: . 1997. Soil Compaction and Disturbance Following Thinning of Second Growth Douglas-fir with a Cut-to

Creator:: Kiser, James D.
Abstract:: Commercial thinning operations can result in damage to residual stems. A literature review revealed that little was known about the effects of residual logging wounds with regard to rotation-age commercial conifers, particularly Douglas-fir. An experiment to examine fungal colonization of Douglas-fir following logging damage showed that while damage was significant...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirbel] Franco Following Commercial Thinning Abstract approved

Creator:: Fahey, Robert T.
Abstract:: Canopy gap formation is a major factor contributing to maintenance of overstory species diversity and stand structure in forests and may be integral to development of understory shrub and herb layers as well. Acknowledgement of gap formation as a fundamental feature of natural forests has led to consideration of gaps...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thinning treatments in young Douglas-fir forests of western Oregon. Forest Ecology and Management

Creator:: Yi, Hoonbok
Abstract:: The process of silvicultural thinning has become very controversial recently with regards to fire protection and management for old-growth conditions and biodiversity. Therefore, an unthinned control stand and 3 different thinning intensities were examined for their effects on the abundance, species richness, and diversity of arthropods in thinning treatments of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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